Drinking your own urine for health benefits

SuffolkSally
SuffolkSally Posts: 964 Member
in Food and Nutrition
No, I don't myself (nor anyone else's, lol).

I remember it being talked about as a health benefit on TV years ago (in the UK) with some historical background, and just recently have come across a few actual practitioners who in the course of fairly ordinary conversation take this for granted and say things like: "if it's yellow let it mellow, if it's brown, chuck it down" etc.

So while I politely refused the offered glass (of beer) from the bloke I was talking to "Excuse me, where else might you have been dunking that moustache?" as I of course didn't say...

I wondered how common a practice this is?
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  • AllTehBeers
    AllTehBeers Posts: 5,030 Member
    No, I don't myself (nor anyone else's, lol).

    I hear some people like that kind of thing.
  • Brewster1215
    Brewster1215 Posts: 247 Member
    You gotta be s**tting me...oh wait, that's another subject.
  • miadhail
    miadhail Posts: 383 Member
    This lady from My Strange Addiction does. Erm. Ew.

    EDIT: sorry for the pic.
  • TazzytheMotivator
    TazzytheMotivator Posts: 646 Member
    No never heard of this . What health benefits could it be??
  • bluefrog_2001
    bluefrog_2001 Posts: 138 Member
    Not sure about this, because urine and feces are waste products that are eliminated and flushed from your body via natural processes. I would say NO, drink more water, less beer.:drinker: :wink:
  • AllTehBeers
    AllTehBeers Posts: 5,030 Member
    This lady from My Strange Addiction does. Erm. Ew.

    *EDIT*

    OMG why are there pictures?? :sick:
  • miadhail
    miadhail Posts: 383 Member
    This lady from My Strange Addiction does. Erm. Ew.

    *EDIT*

    OMG why are there pictures?? :sick:

    I apologise. But yeah, she speaks of them health benefits.
  • Keto_Keith
    Keto_Keith Posts: 73
    Really?
  • VelociMama
    VelociMama Posts: 3,119 Member
    Mine is LOADED with HCG. It's liquid gold for any diet.

    $100 per cup!

    :tongue:
  • shimewazaMan
    shimewazaMan Posts: 413
    I couldn't even imagine doing this, but it is not as strange as it sounds. There are actually quite a few athletes who do this. Former UFC champion Lyoto Machida drinks his urine.
  • geonbaeLeilee
    geonbaeLeilee Posts: 606 Member
    I seriously just threw up in my mouth a little. Why?!
  • Poorgirls_Diet
    Poorgirls_Diet Posts: 528 Member
    “Never argue with an idiot. They will drag you down to their level and beat you with experience.”
  • MarthaAnn8186
    MarthaAnn8186 Posts: 84 Member
    You gotta be s**tting me...oh wait, that's another subject.

    My thought was kidding me. Ugh.
  • OregonsBiggestLoser
    OregonsBiggestLoser Posts: 50
    i personally couldnt drink it.. even if it made you lose 10 lbs per glass... i'm queasy thinking about it:(
  • sonOZeus
    sonOZeus Posts: 7
    haha oh gawd saw this on my strange addiction, so bizarre lady used it literally for everything
  • SuffolkSally
    SuffolkSally Posts: 964 Member
    I don't know either - I think waste product, flush it. Really weird to talk to people who totally take it for granted - we were talking about something utterly unrelated and then out of this conversation it appeared that three of the group do this all the time and the others were totally unfazed.

    Just googled and found this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TF_UV8UXsTI
  • Rhia55
    Rhia55 Posts: 247
    :sick:
  • Ready2Rock206
    Ready2Rock206 Posts: 9,487 Member
    Gross. No way.
  • SongDragon
    SongDragon Posts: 205 Member
    Ew, ew, ew. The only time to drink urine would be if you were trapped and risking dehydration otherwise. People have survived by doing this. Other than that urine could be used to set dyes a long time ago or something, but ew.
  • SuffolkSally
    SuffolkSally Posts: 964 Member
    So glad others feel the same way - I felt a little trapped among aliens earlier, lol
  • Goal_Seeker_1988
    Goal_Seeker_1988 Posts: 1,619 Member
    :huh: :noway: :sick:
  • kenazfehu
    kenazfehu Posts: 1,188 Member
    I've heard of it before because I have friends who lived in India.
    I've also heard of bathing psoriasis in aged urine.
    An aunt from Ireland used to wipe her face with her baby's wet diapers. She said it was great for the skin, and she did have great-looking skin.

    But ewwwwwwwwwwwww!
  • EatClenTrenHard
    EatClenTrenHard Posts: 339 Member
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  • pullipgirl
    pullipgirl Posts: 767 Member
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urine_therapy :sick:
  • schondell
    schondell Posts: 556 Member
    "if it's yellow let it mellow, if it's brown *flush* it down"

    That's not a urine-drinking reference, it's what certain people say when it comes to how often they should flush the toilet.

    EDIT: For typos, whoops!
  • kimberliiw
    kimberliiw Posts: 242 Member
    I'm a medical technologist and do urine and blood testing. Urine is full of some nasty stuff that your kidneys filter out of your blood. So, no thank you.
  • McBully4
    McBully4 Posts: 1,270 Member
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  • SuffolkSally
    SuffolkSally Posts: 964 Member
    "if it's yellow let it mellow, if it's brown *flush* it down"

    That's not a urine-drinking reference, it's what certain people say when it comes to how often they should flush the toilet.

    EDIT: For typos, whoops!

    Umm..(sorry for TMI) in this particular context it meant drink at least some of the yellow stuff and otherwise make use of it (i.e.keep it for various purposes), and dispose of the brown solids, not everyone having flushing systems but maybe earth closets or whatever.
  • deadliftfan
    deadliftfan Posts: 66
    I've heard of it before because I have friends who lived in India.
    I've also heard of bathing psoriasis in aged urine.
    An aunt from Ireland used to wipe her face with her baby's wet diapers. She said it was great for the skin, and she did have great-looking skin.

    But ewwwwwwwwwwwww!

    Urine contains urea. Urea is a great moisturiser, and probably explains her great skin.
  • AZKristi
    AZKristi Posts: 1,801 Member
    Isn't that phrase about flushing the toilet? I don't think its about drinking anything..

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